Polymer electrolyte fuel cells for transportation applications
The application of the polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) as a primary power source in electric vehicles has received incrming attention during the last few years. This increased attention has been fueled by a combination of significant technical advances in this field and by the initiation of some projects for the demonstration of a complete, PEFC-based power system in a bus or in a passenger car. Such demonstration pretieds reflect an increased faith of industry in the potential of this technology for transportation applications, or, at least, in the need for a detailed evaluation of this potential Nevertheless, large scale transportation applications of PEFCs requim a continued concerted effort of research on catalysis, materials and components, combined with the engineering efforts addressing the complete power system. This is required to achieve cost effective, highly performing PEFC stack and power system. We describe in this contribution some recent results of work performed within the Core Research PEFC Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which has addressed transportation applications of PEFCs.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 6654943
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-93-728; CONF-9305150--1; ON: DE93008721
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ALCOHOLS
ANODES
CATALYSTS
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CATHODES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DATA
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ELECTRODES
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FUEL CELLS
HYDROGEN
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MEMBRANES
METALS
METHANOL
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PLATINUM
PLATINUM METALS
POLYMERS
REFORMER PROCESSES
SOLID ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS
STEAM REFORMER PROCESSES
TESTING
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
VEHICLES